The birthday spanking

It was my sister’s birthday. Her Fiance’ planned for us to go out to a nice steakhouse with his parents, our whole family and a couple of their close friends.

MIL and FIL (as usual on birthdays and other important dates to us) were unable to watch granddad, so he came with us. He sat with my brothers, like he has every birthday dinner, and they goaded each other and told jokes the whole time. We had so much fun, and so did he. He kept saying "This is the most fun I've had in I can't remember how long!" Just like he does every time we went out and did fun stuff with him and my family.

Granddad loves red wine, in case I’ve never mentioned that. I mean, he LOVES that shit. So, of course, we ordered him a glass with his steak (which he also LOVES).

I was worried about him getting drunk and sick, so I decided to limit his alcohol intake. When he started asking for more wine, I ordered him a HI-C punch and asked the waitress to serve it in a wine glass. Much to my surprise (and no one else’s) he knew that was a glass of bullshit when he exclaimed “WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?” upon its arrival. That was a funny moment of truth.

You can’t fool a man when it comes to his drink.

What I didn’t know what that night he had already gotten little toasty and slapped my sister’s butt as she bent over to hug someone in front of him. When she turned around to see who it was that had smacked her, granddad sat there with a smirk, and with no hesitation, pointed a blaming finger at my dad sitting next to him.

His sense of humor has never died. I’m so thankful for that.